Barnett v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1949
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kamp v. . Kamp · Chicago Ry Co v. McGlinn · Merle v. Andrews · Mott v. Mott · Stahl v. Stahl
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That any change of the Spanish law as to the acquest Ijroperty under the foregoing status has been made can not be seriously pretended; and that the foregoing authorities decisively establish that, in such contingency, the law upon the subject in operation at the date of the cession of the territory must'prevail, should be unhesitatingly admitted.” 9. N. M. 213.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"That all laws that have previously been in force in this territory that are not repugnant to, or inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, the organic law of this territory, or any act. passed at the present session of the legislative assembly, shall be and continue in force, excepting in Kearney’s Code the law concerning registers of land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The laws heretofore in force concerning descents, distributions, wills and testaments, as contained in the treatises on these subjects written by Pedro Murillo de Lorde (Velarde), shall remain in force so far as they are in conformity with the constitution of the United States ’and the state laws in force for the time being.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.